Description

General Objective

To acquire the fundamental knowledge, with theoretical bases, for the application of skills and abilities in the integral management of critical patients in an intensive care unit.

Addressed to:

University nurses and final year students and other health professionals may apply (the latter subject to the approval of the academic committee).

Contents

 


 

Module I: GENERALITIES AND RESUSCITATION
Admission and Discharge in Intensive Care
Intensive Care Prognostic Systems
Patient Transport
Fluid Replacement: colloids vs. crystalloids
Use of Blood and Hemicomponents
VAD in Septic Shock
Evaluation of preload in critically ill patients

Module II: INVASIVE PROCEDURES AND CRITICAL SURGICAL PATIENTS
Cardiac output measurement
Pleurostomies and pleural drains
Peripherally inserted central vascular accesses (PICC)
Peripheral vascular accesses
Central vascular accesses
Acute mesenteric ischemia
Pressure Injuries
Complications in obstetrics
Intra-abdominal hypertension

Module III: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY IN ICU
General ECG Concepts
Supraventricular Arrhythmias
Ventricular Arrhythmias
Atrioventricular Block
Electrocardiography and Pacing
Acute Myocardial Infarction

Module IV: MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Basic concepts of Mechanical Ventilation
Pathophysiology of Respiratory Failure
Non Invasive Ventilation
High Flow Nosepiece
Ventilatory Modes of NIV
Traditional modes of invasive mechanical ventilation
Measurements to be performed in the ventilated patient
Ventilatory weaning strategies

Module V: SEPSIS AND SHOCK
Sepsis: clinical and epidemiological aspects.
Most frequent nosocomial infections in the critically ill patient.
Multimodal monitoring of tissue perfusion.

Module VI: ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY IN ICU
General ECG Concepts
Supraventricular Arrhythmias
Ventricular Arrhythmias
AV blocks
Electrocardiography and pacing
Acute Myocardial Infarction

Module VII: NEUROLOGICAL CRITICAL PATIENT AND TRAUMA
Evaluation of the comatose patient
Acute cerebrovascular disease
Aneurysmal SAH
Endocranial hypertension
Multimodal monitoring
Polytraumatized
Encephalocranial trauma
Spinal trauma

 

Additional information

Country

Chile

Duration

70 hrs

Certification

AST

Ranking

Specialties, Hospital, Critical Patient

Documentation